PROGRAMME of the round-table
«Standards in public life on regional and national level: United Kingdom - Tatarstan Republic»
Kazan, July 2, 2004
Place of arrangement
Conference hall "Dzhyzeppe" hotel (Kremlevskaya Str. 15/25)
Organizers
Institute for Law and Public Policy, Moscow
Kazan Institute of federalism
with support
Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the United Kingdom
Global Opportunities Fund, the United Kingdom
From the press release of the round-table
« … Experts in the field of a public politics from the Great Britain will act with reports: Michael Toft (Political Adviser, the Standards Board for England, UK) and Chris Game (Senior Lecturer, Institute of Local Government Studies, the University of Birmingham, UK). Representatives of scientific community, bodies of the government and politicians of Tatarstan Republic will take part in work of a round table.
During discussions it is supposed to present an operational experience of the Standards Committee in public life of the United Kingdom and the Standards Board for England; to discuss opportunities to creation of a Council under standards and development in Tatarstan which activity should be directed on the decision of actual problems in the field of development of political-legal institutes and local self-management in Tatarstan Republic, and also introductions of new standards of the government, first of all, in social sphere … »
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Opening of the round-table
On behalf of Administration of the RT
Rafael Khakimov, Political Adviser to President of the Republic of Tatarstan (RT)
On behalf of the Institute for Law and Public Policy
Olga Sidorovich, Director of the Institute for Law and Public Policy, Moscow
First Session
Chaired by Rafael Khakimov
Olga Sidorovich, Director of the Institute for Law and Public Policy, Moscow
Committee on Standards in Public Life of the United Kingdom
Rashid Vagizov, Ombudsmen in RT
Aleksander Tarkaev, Chairman of the Administrative Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the RT, Adviser to the General Director JSK «Dialog Investments» on administrative and public relations questions
Marat Galeev, Chairman of the Committee on economy and investigation policy, State Council of RT
Second session
Chaired by Olga Sidorovich
Chris Game, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Local Government Studies, the University of Birmingham, UK
«Local Democracy in the UK - Do its Standards Need Strengthening?»
Sergey Korshunov, the chief of a department of the Center of economic and social researches of the Republic of Tatarstan at the Cabinet of RT
Galina Morozova, Professor of Kazan State University, Head of the political science department
Damir Iskhakov, Research Fellow, Institute of History, Academy of Science RT, Director of the Ethno-Political Monitoring Center
Third session
Chaired by Rafael Khakimov
Michael Toft, Political Adviser, the Standards Board for England, UK
The Work of the Standards Board for England
Midkhat Kurmanov, Ministry of Justice RT
Rashid Galyamov, General Director of the News Agency «Tatar-Inform»
